2010 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Policy Processes
Published in:
The Government and Politics of the European Union
This chapter examines the nature of the EU’s policy processes. It shows that the processes are numerous and highly complex in nature, that a number of factors combine to determine what processes apply in what policy circumstances, that there are four broad frameworks of policy processes, that a number of characteristics regularly feature in most policy processes, and that the processes are by no means as inefficient as they are often portrayed as being.